Princeton Mascot's Not-So-Extreme Makeover

Just like that cat you always meant to name, but instead just called "kitty" its whole life, Princeton University officials made a halfhearted effort to find a name for their historically unnamed tiger mascot earlier this year, the Daily Princetonian writes. But students and alumni revolted, complaining of commercialization and the destruction of tradition. The school settled on naming the mascot "The Tiger," but only after rejecting "Tigrrrr" (too radical) and "Uproar" (too funny, apparently).

Though the name hasn't really changed, the actual tiger image will receive a face-lift from a look that was "neither fierce nor cute." "It's a more spirited, healthy, athletic-looking tiger," said an athletics official. "[It] more appropriately exhibits the spirit of Princeton." —Alison Go